Change of Era
- February 1, 1120 Hōan gannen (保安元年?): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Gen'ei 3, on the 10th day of the 4th month of 1120.
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Famous quotes containing the words change and/or era:
“Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in nature is change but behind the change there is something eternal.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“I call her old. She has one family
Whose claim is good to being settled here
Before the era of colonization,
And before that of exploration even.
John Smith remarked them as he coasted by....”
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